A party to celebrate First Contact between Earth and Vulcan, where Neelix is trying to get Tuvok to dance, is interrupted when Voyager picks up life signs – 500 Talaxian life signs – and discovers a wary group of clever Talaxians who have carved out a safe place to live within an asteroid. But aggressive aliens lay claim to the area and want to quickly and forcefully evict the Talaxians. Neelix, urged on by Tuvok, gets involved in the conflict and also get attracted to a Talaxian widowed female. With Neelix’ help, the Talaxians are able to erect a force field and remain on the asteroid. Neelix returns to Voyager but sees he is needed more on the asteroid, and Janeway, realizing that this is where Neelix belongs, appoints him as Ambassador to the Delta Quadrant. Sadly, Neelix leaves the ship, but not before Tuvok does a little dance step for him.
A good, solid, emotional episode. But I wonder why the writers decided to ditch Neelix so close to the end of the show. It might have been nice for the entire crew to ‘get back’ to Earth and say goodbye – together.
Watching for the second time, I wondered why, in the second to last scene when crewmembers are lining the hall, why the main crew was not all lined up on the same side of the hall, so Neelix could slowly walk by each one and get a reaction. Instead, for some inexplicable reason, Kim and Seven were on the other side of the hall and only show up in the background. Weird.
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